Release 12.0 · jellyfin/jellyfin
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🚀 Release notes for 12.0 Notes on Updating Before upgrading from an earlier version, a full backup of the data directory is strongly recommended, as this release includes database changes that prev...

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/36389875

Why jump from 10.11.11 directly to 12.0? -> Blog Post

You can find more details about and discuss this release on the official forums.

As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup of your metadata/configs before upgrading!

Direct upgrades from 10.10.7 and 10.11.x to 12.0 are supported; intermediate upgrades are not required. Users running releases older than 10.10.7 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to 10.10.7 before migrating to 12.0.

Installed repository plugins (anything not built-in) should also be removed before migrating. Plugins will likely need time to adapt to the new database changes, so re-adding them afterward is the safest approach for testing.

Official plugins compatible with Jellyfin are available through the stable plugin repository. If you have changed to the unstable plugin repository please change it back.

Go to Dashboard -> Plugins -> Manage Repositories
Update the Plugin Repository URL to: https://repo.jellyfin.org/files/plugin/manifest.json

After migrating please perform the following steps.

Perform a full library scan to restore alternative versions
Run the "Optimize database" scheduled task

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  • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    37 minutes ago

    love the new layout just sad that home screen sections isn’t working yet :3

    also if you did `“^jellyfin” in your apt install, they specifically do a new jellyfin-ffmpeg8 which trips it up so you have to manually specify each package (that was my only issue… which isn’t even an issue)

  • German The Jackal@pawb.socialEnglish
    121·
    23 hours ago

    Any changes to the massive memory footprint of JF? I’m basically stuck on Plex because JF eats multiple gigabytes of my very limited RAM.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    162·
    27 minutes ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    Plex Brand of media server package
    SSO Single Sign-On
    VPN Virtual Private Network

    4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.

    [Thread #98 for this comm, first seen 8th Sep 2026, 17:10] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    261·
    1 day ago

    Looks like my move to navidrome for music is paying off :)

    Seems strange to push books over Audio.

    I’m happy to see such a huge list of achievements through. Especially the endpoint hardening.

    Sad to see still no 2FA,

    Progress is progress; it’s still free and open.

    • kalpol@lemmy.caEnglish
      182·
      1 day ago

      Most people I know run it behind a VPN, so 2FA is less critical.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        152·
        1 day ago

        Most people I know use Plex so they don’t have to.

        I’m hoping we can change that eventually.

  • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
    882·
    2 days ago

    , and . scrub frame-by-frame during playback

    SO0LaBn99MO6v8V.webp

    That is exactly how MPV does it. But from what I remember, VLC devs claim it’s impossible, so VLC only allows you to scrub forward frame-by-frame, not backward. You can skip backwards in three-second increments or whatever, just not frame-by-frame at all. It’s the main thing that keeps me using MPV as my default video player, because I frequently skip around videos trying to get a screenshot of the perfect frame to use to make a meme or something. Being able to scrub frame-by-frame in both directions is a big deal.

      • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
        15·
        1 day ago

        So, every time I want to go back one frame, I have to open that plugin from the menu and then respond to that dialog window? That is certainly more cumbersome than the way MPV/Jellyfin do it, where scrubbing is just a keyboard shortcut. Even if I assigned a keyboard shortcut to activated that plugin (I assume that’s possible), I still have to respond to that dialog box?

        When I scrub through a video to get the perfect frame to screenshot, the experience is usually something like:

        1. Pause video, no that’s not the right frame
        2. Scrub back five frames, not right
        3. Scrub forward one frame, looks closer
        4. Scrub forward one frame, looks closer
        5. Scrub forward one frame, that’s almost what I want
        6. Scrub forward one frame, that’s worse, I guess I went too far
        7. Scrub back one frame, settle on that one

        Using MPV, that’s pretty simple because each step there is just a keystroke that takes zero effort and zero time. But if each of those steps also required me to respond to a dialog box, that would just make the process tedious.

    • irish_link@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      22 hours ago

      I know it’s not the same but quick connect works well. Why not log in that way using a six digit code?

      • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        20 hours ago

        Couple reasons.

        • Jellyfin is not security software, and given the inconsistency and general lack of polish of every other aspect of Jellyfin, its raw login page is not something I’d comfortably expose to the internet to begin with.
        • Quick connect is a poor, unintuitive imitation of Device Flow. A non-technical user would have to also have a Jellyfin app or bookmark in their phone already, and know where to navigate in it to reach the quick connect function. This on its own is insurmountable.
        • It’s not SSO. Jellyfin is yet another username and password they must remember when every single other thing I self host supports OIDC out of the box and they get one user account for everything.
        • irish_link@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          18 hours ago

          Fair points. Thanks for the lesson. TIL a lot.

          Man, I really appreciate so many good folks giving info and not flaming each other. This is a great community.

    • quadrant5835@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      I agree with you but also about 90% of watching on my instance happens on smart TV’s. So even though I would like to have oidc supported for the occasional phone/pc user I would still need something basic that a TV can use.

      • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        1 day ago

        Smart TVs should be able to support OIDC easily out of the box.

        And if it didn’t, you can just use a Device Flow

  • smiletolerantly@awful.systemsEnglish
    100·
    2 days ago

    Now THAT is a changelog.

    Really excited about the query performance improvements, and the improvements to subtitle handling.

    • hereiamagain@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      I’m wondering if this has anything to do with the team lead changing?

      A big push in features that had been waiting on the back burner?

      • smiletolerantly@awful.systemsEnglish
        11·
        1 day ago

        Can’t speak to that, I’m not involved. All I know is that,

        • Jellyfin server gets significant upgrades in subtitle capabilities and performance,
        • Jellyfin AdroidTV just released an RC that finally includes direct play for ASS/SSA subtitles,
        • and on Monday, I FINALLY resolved a hardware issue (faulty cable) that made my Jellyfin almost unusable whenever ASS/SSA needed to be played (and only in that situation. Fun!)

        So yeah, I don’t know or really care about leadership change, I just know it’s gonna run like a rocket now 😄

          • smiletolerantly@awful.systemsEnglish
            11·
            1 day ago

            Haha. Might have slightly exaggerated. But only slightly.

            The Proxmox host in question has a 1Gbit connection to the NAS. (Unfortunately. The other hosts don’t have a GPU, but SPF+… Oh well, can’t have everything.)

            At some point in the last couple of months, it must have been damaged, and negotiated down to only 100Mbit. This must roughly have coincided with the Jellyfin 10.11 update, since I remember thinking that it must be the cause, due to close proximity of update and first issues.

            Anyways. For basically everything in my library, 100Mbit is fine. Streaming an episode NAS->Jellyfin and Jellyfin->TV at the same time basically never saturates the link.

            BUT, from what I’ve gathered by digging through Jellyfin issues and PRs, there’s a separate issue where Jellyfin will pull the episode, and if you need subtitles extracted from the episode file server-side (to transcode them in, if the clients can’t play them), it will at the same time pull the episode AGAIN, and together with the Jellyfin->TV direction, that’s frequently enough that it saturates the link.

            Symptoms is (was) either a 20-30s wait before the episode would start playing, or complete freeze.

            However, I believe this particular issues has been solved for a while. I’m not sure, because I instead opted for the Subtitles Extractor Plugin, which runs nightly and pre-fetches all the subtitles and stores them on the Jellyfin VM itself.

            Where it was still noticeable though was if one of [Library Scan/Trick-play Extraction/Subtitle Extraction/Media Segment Scan] ran while playing an episode, the server would completely lock up.

            Long story short: cable swapped, 1Gbit, all issues gone.

  • TheOctonaut@piefed.zipEnglish
    51·
    2 days ago

    The reason is the feedback we got after 10.11.0, which we first raised in January and confirmed in May. A release like 10.11.0 was, by any reasonable measure, a major release - it rewrote the library database - but the version number presented it as a minor update, and people upgraded with expectations to match. The leading 10. never changed and never told anyone anything, so all it did was push the number that actually mattered into the middle position and make “major” releases look minor. Dropping it means the first number moves when the release is big.

    lol. All the Jellykins in here lost their minds when this was pointed out.

    • samc@feddit.ukEnglish
      221·
      2 days ago

      I dont get why they didn’t just call that update 11.0? Or use that for this update?

      I guess if you’re changing the semantics of your version numbers its also a good idea to introduce a deliberate discontinuity to mark the change?

    • Axolotl@feddit.itEnglish
      8·
      1 day ago

      My guess is that people would call the 10.11.x update something like .11.x instead of the full version because “they don’t change the first number anyway” and it would cause confusion to call the next update version 11.x.x so they just jumped to 12

  • krimson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    1 day ago

    Multiple versions for episodes

    ❤️

    Edit: so I have two libraries, 4K and HD because of different viewing locations. Transcoding 4K to HD is not an option, hardware is too slow for that.

    Now my multi quality tvshows get combined into one “view” per show which is nice. But it seems it still shows seperate episodes per quality and does not track viewing progress yet sadly or am I missing something?

    • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      That’s not as common of an occurrence as multiple versions of movies, but I have sure had a few instances when I wanted that for a TV show episode as well. That is certainly a welcome feature that I am looking forward to.

    • virku@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Can you in theory set the servarr stack to fetch multiple languages of the same media now, when available?

      • Dultas@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        I don’t think seer, sonarr, or radarr support that but in theory could. You’d also need your sources to have a good way to supply those details in a good way as well. I wish they had a good way to filter for languages now as I hate dubbed anything.

        • virku@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          I don’t have the arr stack now, but when I fiddled with it a year or two ago I had to set one language. I ended up scrapping it because of it and just continuing with the streaming services. I also hate dubbed anything, but have small kids who want to see their shows in Norwegian. Switching them over to English on shows or movies they already know in Norwegian would be a great way for them to learn. Maybe I get to watch the Disney movies in English with them finally.

        • virku@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          Of course, if it is available then that would be a good option. But if not then I would want it to download one of each.

          • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusMEnglish
            5·
            1 day ago

            Multiple sonarr instances, multiple radarr instances, one prowlarr, one qbittorrent, etc.

            And one JF instance with different libraries for each.

            • virku@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 day ago

              I see! Thanks 😊

              Are you able to differ easily between the jellyfins on client devices like Apple tvs?

              • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusMEnglish
                4·
                1 day ago

                There’s only one Jellyfin instance, its just additional libraries as mentioned.

                Well, kind of, I have other JF instances as lxc’s but not for that reason.

  • Surp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 day ago

    How do you get this to work remotely easily for old people on smart tvs?

      • deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        11·
        4 hours ago

        Or, unpopular opinion, use Cloudflare tunnels. Almost too easy to setup and free of charge. Much easier than reserve proxy imho. Of course it has drawbacks, e.g. many are critical toward the company

        • black0ut@pawb.socialEnglish
          2·
          1 hour ago

          Cloudflare tunnels need logins, depend on cloudflare, and allow cloudflare to sniff all your traffic.

          They’re easy, but we should stop recommending them. They’re a terrible solution, both for the internet as a whole and for your personal privacy.

    • left_is_best@feddit.onlineEnglish
      161·
      1 day ago

      Tailscale is a pretty good option if said old people have an Android or Apple TV, not sure about availability of Tailscale on any other OSs. Run it on your server and the TV client, grab the Tailscale IP from the dashboard and enter [Tailscale IP]:[Jellyfin port] when the Jellyfin app asks for the server address. You could homebrew a VPN too. Only other option would be a domain name and a reverse proxy.

      • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
        12·
        1 day ago

        Only other option would be a domain name and a reverse proxy.

        This is how I set it up for my family and friends. Works like a charm, especially if you have a dynamic IP. Everyone just signs in through whichever app they want to use.

        • AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          this is the way imo. I also took the time to disable internal authentication and hook up authentik via the ldap auth plugin. so for my users, I can text them a link, they set up their credentials and verify their email, then they can sign in to jellyfin with the same creds and it automatically creates a profile and everything.